High-Profile Candidate?

According to The Globe And Mail the NDP have landed a high-profile canadidate in Monia Mazigh. You can forgive yourself if you have no idea who she is but she is the wife of Mahar Arar the man who spent a year in a Syrian prison.

And my oh my wouldn't you know that she is running in my riding of Ottawa South. Safe bet is that she won't be getting my vote. Anyways.

What exactly makes Mrs. Mazigh a high profile candidate is beyond me but according to her both the Liberals and the NDP have approached her:

She said she had been wooed by Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal party as well by Mr. Layton but has previously voted NDP and feels closer to that party.

Maybe I'm missing something. A high-profile canadidate? The media is constantly telling me that Tony Clement is 'unknown', 'low-key', etc... I must be hanging around the wrong people or something.

And to top it all off she doesn't even live in the Ottawa South riding. Suffering Canadian politics is messed up.